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Charter 77 is petition, in which Czechoslovakian intellectuals urged the government to observe human rights as outlined in the Helsinki Accords of 1975. The signatories of the Charter criticized the government for failing to implement human rights provisions of a number of documents it had signed, including the 1960 Constitution of Czechoslovakia, the Final Act of the 1975 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Basket III of the Helsinki Accords), and UN covenants on political, civil, economic, and cultural rights.